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PAPER HOLDER.

No. 293,349 Patented Feb. 12, 1884 :2 :3 n e v l ili I l lo-Lilhcgmpher. WaEluug N PETERS. Pm

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILLARD F. NEWBUBY, OF GOXSAOKIE, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO BENJAMIN F. EATON, OF SAME PLACE.

PAPER-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,349, dated February12, 1884.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, MILLARD F. NEWBURY, of Coxsackie, in the county ofGreene and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Paper-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Holders have been made with a receptacle for a roll of wrapping or other paper, and witha knife or edge, against which the paper is torn, and in some instances the knife or tearing edge has been provided with pivots and weighted, so that it will be swung up out of the Way, and the edge will be drawn down by the pressure of the paper, previously to such paper being torn off from the roll.

My invention relates to the knife employed in paper holders of the aforesaid character.

, In all the knives employed with these paperbeen employed.

order to act to the best advantage.

holders it is preferable to have penetratingpoints; hence saw-tooth knives have generally It is found that the penetrating-points should be of different lengths or shapes for different qualities of paper, in Besides this, it is sometimes desirable to have particular-shaped notches at the edges of the paper, to indicate the place from which the paper has been taken.

My improvement consists in the combination, with the holder for the roll, of a compound' knife or tearingedge, over which the paper is torn in separating the same from the 'roll, the compound knife having movable teeth that can be placed so as to penetrate the paper and cause the separation thereof from the roll, and such movable teeth can be set at greater or less distance fromthe tearing-edge to penetrate the paper and commence the separation thereof, the final separation being of fected upon the tearing-edge.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a section representing the paper-holder and knife. Fig. 2 is a detached elevation of the knife, partially in section; and Fig. 3 isaseparate section of the knife and its stock, with two sets of knives.

The holder A and cover B are adapted to receive the roll of paper 0, and there is an opening at D, through which the paper is drawn. These parts may be of any desired character. The compound knife is attached to the stock F, and such stock is supported by the pivots h, and the heaviest part of the stock is below such pivots, so that the knife in its normal Application filed September 4, 1883. (No model.)

shown in Fig. 1, but it will be swung down into the position shown by dotted lines when the paper is-pulled out and torn off. There are stops at o to limit the movement of the compound knife as it swings up, and the bar tforms a guide for the paper and a stop to the knife when drawn down in tearing the paper in the position shown by dotted lines.

The compound knife is made of a blade, 0, with a straight or nearly straight edge, and fastened to the stock by screws 8, and between the stock and the blade there are plates or strips 0* r, with penetrating-teeth upon their ends, and these plates are slotted at the places where the screws pass through them, and they are adapted to being adjusted so that the penetrating teeth project more or less beyond the edge of the blade 0, as required for the particular paper with which this cutter is to be employed.

The teeth may be of any desired shape, and it is to be understood that the plates or strips 1* can be easily removed for sharpening the teeth, and that the teeth may be provided at both ends of these strips, so as to be reversed when the teeth at one .end become dull; or, if it is desired to vary the shape of the serrations left upon the edges of the paper at the line of separation, the same may be effected by changing the positions of the plates or strips r to bring the serrations or cuttingedges to the desired places.

In Fig. 3 I have shown some of the plates or strips as having both ends sharpened, as at r, to form cutters, and the plates r laid upon the plates 1", so as to make the stock adapted to holding several cutters, that may be placed or arranged in any form desired.

I claim as my invention- The combination, with the paper; holder position will be swung up into the position and the knife-stock, of a compound knife 5 IOO 

